Collar



'E. A. KING De c. 14 1926.

COLLAR Filed August 19 1925 1,610,686 PATENT QFFICE.

EDWARD A. KING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COLLAR.

Application filed August 19, 1925. Serial No. 51,236.

The invention consists, essentially, in a folding or turn-down collar, more especially one of the so-called soft-collar type, characterized by the employment, as the external layer or ply constituting the back of the flap or so-called fold, of a material possessing desirable qualities for use in such connection, and further characterized by the use, as the external layer constituting the inner face of the collar at the fold-line, of a strip of material better adapted for flexing than the said material of the said external layer or ply at the back side of the flap or fold. Through the employment of permanently stiffened woven fabric as the external layer or ply at the back side of the flap or fold, I am enabled to produce a flap or fold which will be free from the same liability to wrinkle or collapse and lose its shape 'or position as when ordinary unstarched woven materialalone is employed.

Otherspecial features included in the invention are defined hereinafter, the particular objects thereof being indicated in the course of the following description.

Other features will be pointed out below.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is an elevation of an end portion of the inside of a collar embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged section on line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an elevation of an end portion of the flapof the collar shown in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a diagrammatic section on line i H of Figure 3;

Figure 5 is an elevation of the end portion of the neck-band of the collar shown in Figure 1;

Figure 6 is a diagrammatic section on' line 66 of Figure 5;

Figure 7 is a view similarto Figure 1, showing a modification igure 8 is an enlarged section on line 88 of Figure 7.

The flap of the collar comprises a layer or ply A which is at the outside when the collar is in use, and may be of cotton, silk or other suitable material and a layer or 1y portion B forming the back surface of the or fold and which preferably is composed of what is known in the trade as permanent finish cloth which provides the desired stif fening for the flap. The portion B constituting as just indicated the external layer or ply of material at the back of the flap .or

fold is narrower than portion A so that its edge adjacent to the neckband is spaced from the neckband as appears in Figure 1.

In order to provide neatness at the fold and ease of folding I provide in the forms of Figures 1 to 6, a strip of tape D which may be of cotton or other suitable thin material which is very pliable relatively to the portion B. This tape D is stitched along one edge at d to portion B and the other edge and an edge of portion A extend between the two portions E and F of the neck band and are stitched at e and f to said portions, the latter being of any suitable material and stitched together along their edges by stitching g and g, the tape edges being selvageo. v The edges of the portions A and B are suitably stitched together at a, a, b and b.

In the form of Figures 7 and 8 the flap has portions A and B likeportions A and B in the other form and strip D is like strip D in that it is stitched at d to portion B,but it extends in the form of a lining nearly to the bottom of the neck-band portions E and F and is stitched thereto at d (Z and 03 The strip D extends around ,the button holes as indicated and is notched at d to meet the flap portion and thus furnishes not only a lining for. the body portion of the neckband but reenforcement at the button hole portions.

The strip or tape forms a portion of the fold or hinge between the flap and neckband and being relatively vpliable provides not only ease of folding into the dottedline position in Figure 4 but neatness and smoothness at the fold and the strip is strongly reinforced by the line of stitching at (Z and the line of stitching e in Figuresl to 6 or the lines of stitching d and d in Figures 7 and 8. I

One mode of stiffened woven fabric consists in chemically treating the material for portion B' in a way well known in the art so that a permanent finish is given which will not be lost when the collar is washed.

I prefer to have my tape woven on a curve and if a strip of cloth is used with its edges turned in I prefer to have that also cut on a curve.

The employment of a selvaged tape has a finished appearance and are free from producing a permanently liability to raveling. Consequently, doubling over of the edges thereof to give a smooth and finished appearance, and to provide for securely holding stitches, are unnecessary. So, also, the fibrous components of a woven fabric having a permanent finish are so bound together as to render the marginal portions adjoining cut edges nonraveling, thereby obviating necessity for doubling over the edges of layer or ply B. This avoids local thickenings in the form of welts or ridges along the line of fold of the collar, as well as elsewhere.

lVhat I claim is:

1. A folding or turn-down. collar having the back surface of its flap or fold constituted by an external layer or ply of material which terminates short of the fold-line of the collar, and having combined with the said external layer or ply a strip which is external at the fold-line so that it constitutes the inner face of the collar at such line, with the adjoining margins of the said external layer or ply and of the external portion of the strip fastened together, each of the said margins being of single thickness, the said strip having the lower portion thereof made fast in connection with the neck-band, and such strip being of material better adapted for flexing than the external layer aforesaid.

2. A folding or turn-down collar having the back surface of its flap or fold constituted by an external layer or ply of permanently stiffened woven fabric which terminates short of the fold-line of the collar, and havingcombined with the said external layer or ply a strip which is external at the fold-line so that it, constitutes the inner face of the collar at such line, with the adjoining margins of the said external layer or ply and of the external portion of the strip fastened together, the said strip having the lower portion thereof made fast in connection with the neck-band, and such strip being of material better adapted for flexing than the external layer aforesaid.

3. A folding or turn-down collar having the back surface of its flap or fold constituted'by an external layer or ply of material which terminates short of the fold-line of the collar in a single-thickness non-raveling margin, and having combined with the said external layer or ply a strip which is external at the fold-line so that it constitutes the inner face ofthe collar at such line, with the said single-thickness non-raveling margin of the said external layer or ply and the external portion of the strip fastened together, the said strip having the lower portion thereof made fast in connection with the neck-band, and such strip being of material better adapted for flexing than the external layer aforesaid.

4. A folding or turn-down'collar having the back surface of its flap or fold constituted by an external layer or ply of material which terminates short of the fold-line of the collar in a single-thickness non-raveling margin, and having combined with the said external layer or ply a strip which is external at the fold-line so that it constitutes the inner face of the collar at such line, with the said single-thickness non-raveling margin of the said external layer or ply and a selvaged margin of the strip fastened'together, the said strip having the lower portion thereof made fast in connection with the neck-band, and such strip being of material better adapted for flexing than the external layer aforesaid.

EDWARD A. KING.

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